Peril Quotes

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I think six seasons are telling us one thing about 'Game of Thrones': Everyone should watch their back. No one is safe. That's what I love about the show. I love that it's so unpredictable.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

The more rulers strive to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately are they resisted; …. laws directed against opinions affect the generous minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright; so that they cannot be maintained without great peril to the state.

There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they're on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Your petition is to deal in the limitation of the succession. At this present it is not convenient, nor never shall be without some peril unto you, and certain danger unto me. But as soon as there may be a convenient time and that it may be done with least peril unto you, although never without great danger unto me, I will deal therein for your safety and offer it unto you as your prince and head without requests. For it is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

I have to tell you, in my judgment, some of us sitting here today will not come back alive from this campaign. I want you to think about it.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

What is life, but one long risk?

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.